A grenade exploded early today in the entrance of the Turkish consulate in the western German city of Dusseldorf but no one was injured.
Police said a Turkish fundamentalist religious group had claimed responsibility for the attack, which caused thousands of marks (dollars) of damage. The claim is being investigated.
Later, 14 people presumed to be Turkish occupied the Swedish Chamber of Commerce in Dusseldorf for two-and-a-half hours to draw attention to conditions in Turkey's jails, police said.
Germany, home to some two million Turkish people, has seen several such occupations in recent days.
Yesterday, a Turkish prisoner became the 13th person to die in a mass hunger strike to protest against the government's plans to transfer inmates from overcrowded dormitory-style prisons to new cell-type jails, where convicts say they will be isolated and at greater risk of police brutality.